USBFlashCopy Backs Up Your Flash Drives

You may be diligent about backing up your personal files and data on your computer at home, and even on your laptop when you're traveling, but what about that small army of USB flash drives you have in your bag at all times? You know, the ones with your presentation on it, or your resume, or the most recent copy of that novel you've been writing in your spare time.

If you haven't been backing up those flash drives, you risk losing all of the data on your drive if you damage it, wash it accidentally, or leave it behind in a coffee shop or library the next time you're working remotely. That's where USBFlashCopy, a utility that backs up your USB flash drives as soon as they're connected to your PC, comes in. The app makes sure your flash drives are backed up by doing the backup before you can use it.

The best backup systems are the ones that remove the need for a person to actually start a backup or remember to run a backup job, and USBFlashCopy is perfect for this. When you have the app installed, it runs quietly in the background waiting for you to plug in a USB flash drive. As soon as you do, the app springs into action and backs the drive up before presenting it to you for use. The app itself is tiny and portable, meaning you can run it from a network drive or any other location, but as long as it's running it will keep any connected flash drives backed up.

The utility is smart enough to do differential backups, meaning only files that have been changed or added on your flash drive are copied to the backup directory or drive. You can specify a backup directory or drive for your flash drives, or you can let the app create a directory in your My Documents folder automatically. The app only takes up about 300KB of space, and since the app doesn't require a full installation, you can always pick it and its settings file up and move it to a new location and it will retain your preferences.

USBFlashCopy is free, but for $39.99 USD you can buy a license for corporate use and unlock the app's silent mode, where it will back up connected USB drives quietly without displaying the backup progress window in the lower right corner of the screen. The app supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7, in both 32 and 64-bit flavors.

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